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If you’re a big fan of Larry David‘s HBO original series Curb Your Enthusiasm, it’s possible you’re familiar with the story of Juan Catalan, the man who was wrongfully charged with murder and exonerated by an unlikely, and airtight, alibi – that he was present during filming at a Los Angeles Dodgers game for the […]

Anakin Skywalker, the original moral relativist, is appropriately enough now the subject of a new figure from Hot Toys that some people will find creepily realistic, while others will proudly display on their mantel – or wherever it is they keep their action figures. And besides, it’s not like Star Wars fans have a ton […]

If you’ll indulge me for a moment, I’m about to play a little aesthetic connect-the-dots with this video. Thor: Ragnarok was directed by Taika Waititi, who also worked on the TV show Flight of the Conchords, which in turn was also worked on by famed music video and feature film director Michel Gondry, who first […]

It sounds like a joke aimed at increasingly desperate, elaborate promotional gimmicks by retail and apparel brands, but the Cliffside Shop, accessible only by scaling 300 feet up the side of the Colorado’s Bastille Wall in Eldorado Canyon, is extremely real. And it’s the work of Cocona Natural Technologies in order to promote the company’s […]

We live in an era when awareness of wealth disparity and the general pitfalls of unchecked capitalism is increasing all the time. Now, even Burger King is offering lip service to those that the burger chain has fired over the years, with a new, and evidently very real, program called Whopper Severance. In order to […]

On Sunday night, did it all of a sudden seem like more of your friends than ever were watching Game of Thrones? As it turns out, it wasn’t just your imagination, but an actual statistical phenomenon now illustrated by the report that the show’s season seven finale, “The Dragon and the Wolf,” was the most […]

If you’re looking for an explanation here about how cryptocurrencies operate, bad news – I don’t even understand how my credit card operates. But I do know that, for some reason Burger King has gotten into the cryptocurrency field with, I Kid Vid you not, WhopperCoin. It’s being tested in Russia, where apparently anything goes […]

It has been said that in order to fight crime you must understand the mindset of the criminal. With that thought in mind, consider the Mandem Safe LX, which is the newest creation from Mandem Safe that’s designed to look just like a shoe box – in this case, one from adidas. I’ve never burgled […]

The 2001 film Super Troopers has enough fans to be considered a cult comedy, and the members of that cult recently put their money where their mouths were to pony up for the sequel’s successful crowdfunding campaign – to the tune of over four and a half million dollars. Now, the fruits of their efforts […]

Starcade (not to be confused with WCW Starrcade) is enshrined in television history as the first game show ever to incorporate video games into its structure, paving the way for such future game shows as – well, Nick Arcade is the most important one, so let’s just leave it at that. Now, for some reason, […]